Re: [PHP-DEV] le_ why static?

[Sascha Schumann]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote:

> Why are le_* garbage destructor handles declared static?
>
> As far as I can tell this means other c files in the same module can't
> "extern" it but as it is static in file scope it has none of the other
> benefits of being static?
>
> Is it to do with threading?  What?

Usually, other source files do not need access to those
symbols.  Hence, exporting them without a reason would only
pollute the global symbol space.  If you need to access such
a symbol in more than one source file, I suggest prefixing
the symbol correctly.

- Sascha


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Re: [PHP-DEV] le_ why static?

[Andrei Zmievski]

On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Sam Liddicott wrote:
> Why are le_* garbage destructor handles declared static?
> 
> As far as I can tell this means other c files in the same module can't
> "extern" it but as it is static in file scope it has none of the other
> benefits of being static?
> 
> Is it to do with threading?  What?

It doesn't have to be static. I've used non-static le_* variables in the
latest extension I'm writing.

-Andrei
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